The Pier at Gaza and the “Bloodbath” sure have taken Ukraine off the front page, makes one wonder what is going on behind the curtain...
does anyone else suspect this could be a “obama sponsored” military outpost for USA and European allies to use in attacking ISRAEL if the Jewish Nation has the audacity to try and preventively defend themselves against Iran, Hezzbulluh or Ham-ass?
Well, lots of claims and counterclaims, but the one thing for sure is that Ukraine has been popping distillation towers at some Russian refineries, and, Russian refined oil products production and especially export is down, according to the Russians themselves. This may force Pooty to pull some Air Defense assets back into Russia, which has interesting implications.
I must admit that Russia’s inability to intercept moderately large, slow, noisy(!) drones flying in some cases quite long distances into Russia, surprises me a bit. Acoustic detection and triangulation works, and Russia used to have significant such capabilities, intended for use against far tougher bogeys (like cruise missiles). The Ukie attacks were neither swarm attacks nor time-on-target, either.
How this plays out will be interesting. It is somewhat (somewhat) reminiscent of what the Houthis did to Saudi Arabia.